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Wickham, Jacob B., Vita, Engineer's Council for Professional Development
Full text linkNPS 1959 Professors in Engineer's Council for Professional DevelopmentNPS 1959 Professors in Engineer's Council for Professional Developmen
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Mesoscale spatial and temporal variations of water mass characteristics in the California current region off Monterey Bay in 1973-1974
Full text linkContinuous salinity and/or temperature profiles were made
off the coast of Monterey Bay monthly between August 1973 and
August 1974 and on a spatial grid finer than is conventionally
used. A procedure is described to convert the data from
analog to digital form, process these data on an IBM 360 computer,
and print out the results by station for each month.
The results show water mass features of small spatial
scale detectable only because of the small grid spacing. A
gyre or filament structure is suggested by the north to south
variation between lines of stations. The extent of the area
of survey is insufficient to describe completely the water
mass structure on both the eastern and western boundaries;
however, the temporal variation in the observed water mass
structure is consistent with the three oceanographic seasons
described for the California Current system. Elements of relatively
cold water and relatively warm water masses are
identified in the area of survey.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.Lieutenant, United States Navyhttp://archive.org/details/mesoscalespatial109452093
Nutrient study of mesoscale thermal features off Point Sur, California
Full text linkThermal patterns with the appearance of cyclonic motion
and sharp thermal fronts frequently are seen in satellite
IR images off the California coast near Pt. Sur. These
thermal patterns are associated with distinctly structured
upwelling systems. In nine seasonal cruises since December
1978, nutrient fronts are strongly correlated with thermal
fronts. However, an upwelling which is well defined by the
satellite detected thermal front, may not be nutrient rich.
A strong inverse linear correlation between nutrients and
temperature though does exist for upwelling within an early
stage of development. It is feasible, by utilizing limited
in situ data, to infer nutrient distribution within satellite
detected, surface thermal patterns associated with upwelling.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.Lieutenant, United States Coast Guardhttp://archive.org/details/nutrientstudyofm109451764
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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